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Taxon: Subfamily Cricetinae Fischer de Waldheim, 1817 - hamsters (mammal)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Rodentia - (Family) Cricetidae

Original position

Questionably Muridae (Family) Batsch, 1788

Original entries

Questionably Allocricetulus (Genus) Argyropulo, 1932
Questionably †Amblycricetus (Genus) Zheng, 1993
Questionably Cansumys (Genus) Allen, 1928
Questionably †Chuanocricetus (Genus) Zheng, 1993
Questionably †Collimys (Genus) Daxner-Hock, 1972
Questionably Cricetulus (Genus) Milne-Edwards, 1867
Questionably †Hattomys (Genus) Freudenthal, 1985
Questionably †Hypsocricetus (Genus) Daxner-Höch, 1992
Questionably †Ischymomys (Genus) Zazhigin, 1971
Questionably †Karstocricetus (Genus) Kordos, 1987
Questionably †Kowalskia (Genus) Fahlbusch, 1969
Questionably Mesocricetus (Genus) Nehring, 1898
Questionably †Microtocricetus (Genus) Fahlbusch & Mayr, 1975
Questionably †Nannocricetus (Genus) Schaub, 1934
Questionably †Pannonicola (Genus) Kretzoi, 1965
Questionably †Paracricetulus (Genus) Young, 1927
Questionably Phodopus (Genus) Miller, 1910
Questionably †Rhinocricetus (Genus) Kretzoi, 1956
Questionably †Rotundomys (Genus) Mein, 1965
Questionably †Sinocricetus (Genus) Schaub, 1930
Questionably Tscherskia (Genus) Ognev, 1914

Subsequent entries

Cricetus (Genus) Leske, 1779
Cricetus (Genus) R. Kerr, 1792, err. bibl.

Current position

Cricetidae (Family) Fischer, 1817 Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1048.

Alternative positions

Muridae (Family) Batsch, 1788 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 149.

Historical positions

Muridae (Family) Batsch, 1788 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 149.
Muridae (Family) Batsch, 1788 Ref: G.G. Musser & M.D. Carleton, 1993: 536; 7, 501.
Muridae (Family) Batsch, 1788 Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 164.
Cricetidae (Family) Fischer, 1817 Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1048.
Cricetidae (Family) Fischer, 1817 Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1974: 585.

Number of Subtaxa

2026 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 7g;18s;9ss; †15g;4s;1ss
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000 [7g;18s; †15g]
1997 M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell [7g; †15g]
1993 G.G. Musser & M.D. Carleton 7g;18s
1991 G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill [6g];~25s
1982 A.F. DeBlase 3t;[59g;355s]
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